TOBA TEK SINGH, May 22: The rail traffic remained suspended for more than nine hours when an engine of a passenger train derailed at the main railway level-crossing here on Friday night.

The engine of 144 Down train, going to Samassatta from Sialkot, derailed at 1am due to some unknown reasons. Consequently, the rail traffic between Kamalia and Jhang was suspended. The train was allowed to depart when an engine from Faisalabad reached here after three hours. While the rail traffic could be restored after nine hours when a crane lifted the derailed engine.

DIRECTED: A local court on Saturday directed DPO Saad Akhtar Bharwana to himself investigate the rape case of a seven-year-old girl of the Gobindpura locality.

Widow Kishwar Bibi, mother of the victim, had filed a petition in court for the change of investigation. The petitioner alleged that investigation officer SI Muhammad Hussain was partial in his approach.

Vagabond Saleem had kidnapped the girl and raped her at a deserted place in Ameerdin town near a missionary school some three months back.

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